Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 35
You gutter travel wid a circus 'fo' you gits away wid me.
Who acts: You, travel · What happens: gutter, wi · To what, where: circus, me
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, travel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 gutter | nsubj |
| 2 | gutter | gutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wid | nsubj |
| 4 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gutter | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 circus | det |
| 6 | circus | circus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wid | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 fo | punct |
| 8 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 wid | mark |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 fo | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wid | nsubj |
| 11 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 wid | advmod |
| 13 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wid | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wid | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gutter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gutter | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wi | past | travel | a circus | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wi | past | you | me | away property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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